Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer

Post by nkrisc » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 12:08 PM UTC

threetonesun wrote: post #31

nkrisc wrote: post #11

> Stickerbox is our attempt to make modern AI kid-safe, playful, and tangible. We’d love to hear what you think! How is it made to be "kid-safe"? > Our model includes strict safety filters that block inappropriate content before it ever appears, ensuring that every creation stays fun, imaginative, and age-appropriate. How do you filter the output of a generative AI like this?

Filter the input? If it's trained on all kid-friendly material and you have guardrails on the inputs what's going to come out. I believe Apple has done this pretty successfully on their image gen stuff that was clearly aimed at kids. Granted the outputs are... very boring, but they seem to never give back anything inappropriate.

Post by bdavbdav » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 2:29 PM UTC

smallerfish wrote: post #23

The biggest problem is that when this company goes out of business in 5 years that it'll become a paperweight. I'm still bitter at Logitech for screwing up Squeezebox.

Post by venturecruelty » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 6:53 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #60

venturecruelty wrote: post #54

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The entire point of being creative is that you actually MAKE it yourself, not that you tell the slop machine to make it for you. This is, quite frankly, the complete and total opposite of creativity. This is pure consumption disguised as creativity, wrapped up in a nice $99 box that will probably be e-waste in a couple years when the company goes under.

Is writing a book not creative if you use an existing font? There are both creative aspects like choosing words or choosing a font and non creative aspects like rendering the font.

Post by vrighter » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 7:06 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #60

venturecruelty wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire point of being creative is that you actually MAKE it yourself, not that you tell the slop machine to make it for you. This is, quite frankly, the complete and total opposite of creativity. This is pure consumption disguised as creativity, wrapped up in a nice $99 box that will probably be e-waste in a couple years when the company goes under.

Is writing a book not creative if you use an existing font? There are both creative aspects like choosing words or choosing a font and non creative aspects like rendering the font.

Post by devmor » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 11:51 PM UTC

nickthegreek wrote: post #62

devmor wrote: post #52

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That is a ridiculously dishonest comparison and you know it.

No it’s not, and you know it. If a child wants dino stickers for something they are doing, I see no difference of them obtaining those stickers from Walmart or from a printer in their house. In both scenarios, the dinosaurs were not designed by the child. at least in the AI example they can customize to their wants. You don’t seem willing to thoughtfully engage in conversation. Why even post here in first place?